Hi,
the spectacular amound of reverts just performed by Ben make me think we
are doing something wrong
in terms of QA of pull requests, and that we need to make it less time
consuming and more predictable
(and yes, I've sent a similar mail to GeoTools, but read on, the content of
this one is GeoServer specific).
The first issue I see is that people are clearly not doing builds before
making pull requests... and
the sad part is, we are in no position to ask for them, because on Windows
GeoServer
just does not build, there are files that are kept locked that break the
build there.
I have tried and failed to fix those issues, but they are happening
randomly, and not really happening when
you try to debug them as they seem to be time related...
right now it seems to me the lesser evil is to detect the OS and do not
throw an error
in case we fail to delete some file in the data dir if the OS is Windows.
At least, we can get a clean build on Windows and thus help Windows
developers to contribute.
The other issue is that Travis builds are failing... a lot:
https://travis-ci.org/geoserver/geoserver/builds
So we basically cannot trust them when evaluating the pull requests. But
I'm not sure what
to do about those, did not have time to check why they are failing so
often, anyone interested
in verifying?
The other issue we have are the many app-schema online tests, which
typically do not run
on the dev box, nor on the build servers, and we get reports (sometimes
many) days later from Ben
and friends.
Specifically for GeoServer, it seems that we'd need a online build with
several external services
up, right? Which of course are a chore to setup.
Any way to get notified of issues sooner, instead of triggering another
revert storm?
If you have any other suggestion on how to make development less
stressful... I believe
everybody would be happy to hear them :-)
Cheers
Andrea
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